Author: Glasgow, Ellen,
Title: The Woman Within.
Description: NY, Harcourt Brace, (1954). 1st ed ss. VG. Teal binding, silver lettering, owner name fep. Laid in newspaper reviews of this book dated 1954 tells of her mental &. physical vulnerability that shaped her character. She writes in her books as no southerner had before of the harshness of reality beneath the romantic myth of the past. This "intimate and intense autobiography" has "no honeysuckles and no carrion flowers, but a good deal of cactus flowering amid the thorns in this chronicle of the inner life of an artist". One early literary adviser with Macmillan had urged her to stop writing and go back to the South and have babies.

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